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Run your media server on a NAS

A NAS is the natural home for a media library: always on, quiet and full of disks. Silux Media runs on any NAS that supports Docker.

Install with Docker

  1. 1Download the Silux Media Docker image from the downloads page
  2. 2docker load -i silux-media-server-docker-*.tar.gz
  3. 3docker run -d -p 8097:8097 -v /volume1/films:/media:ro -v silux-state:/state -v silux-cache:/cache silux-media-server
  4. 4Open http://<nas-ip>:8097 and create the owner account

Low-power NAS CPUs

Many NAS processors are modest. Turn on the overnight optimiser so films are prepared while you sleep and playback needs almost no CPU; Intel NAS models with Quick Sync are used automatically.

Questions

Does it replace my NAS's built-in video app?

It can run alongside it, reading the same shared folders.